Åbo Akademi organised and hosted on 15-17th of August 2024 the annual ‘summer seminar’ (which is organized jointly with Stockholm University since for decades, every second year in the Finnish archipelago, every second year in the Swedish archipelago) on altered the security situation in the Baltic Sea. The participants were academic and other experts from Finland and Sweden, and included persons closely linked to BALEX . The topics covered a broad range of issues, including the effects on the changed security of the Baltic Sea to maritime law, hybrid operations, the effect of NATO membership of Finland and Sweden to shipping, security of supply, jurisdictional issues linked to sabotage to underwater cables and pipelines, including the NordStream case, possible private tort law claims on Baltic Connector, and effects to maritime labour law. Henrik Ringbom, Al Vlodder and Jouni Honkala participated.